Tired of manually finding the edges of his workpiece for each axis, he built himself a DIY touch probe to automate the process. The theory behind the probe’s operation is pretty simple.

Of course, this isn’t the first DIY touch probe we’ve seen, here’s one for example, and over on Hackaday.IO, here’s an attempt to make one using a piezoelectric transducer.

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